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I take the subject matter of semantic theory to be (1) the form of the mentally encoded information that we call “concepts,” and (2) the principles used in (a) performing inferences on the basis of this information and (b) relating this information to other forms of information used by the human mind, including not only linguistic representations but also visual information (a la Marr, 1982) and other sensory and cognitive faculties. A semantic theory must therefore include at least three formal components:
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Jackendoff, R. (1993). X-Bar Semantics. In: Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Semantics and the Lexicon. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1972-6_2
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